My colleague, Andre, has put together a great little sample which shows how to control some basic functions of an AllJoyn enabled LG Television from a cross-platform mobile application using our AllJoyn Cordova Plugin. This plugin natively compiles version 14.12 … Read More »

The AllJoyn framework for device communication is increasingly gaining traction, but it is still not broadly installed on consumer devices. This can pose a problem for developers working in the space, as an AllJoyn Router is required on the network … Read More »

My colleagues and I at Microsoft Strategic Engagements often hold “hackfests” to help customers solve hard problems. This week, however, we held a hackfest just to build something fun! I present to you, the fully automated air cannon with OpenCV … Read More »

If you use the Terminal in OSX frequently you probably keep multiple tabs open. You can actually name these tabs very easily to remind you what you are doing in each tab. Edit or create your .bash_profile

This display, which is extremely similar to the AdaFruit ST7735, is frequently found on ebay and is a great 1.8 inch SPI TFT display. It also includes an SD Card slot, also available via SPI. The main issue with the … Read More »

In this post I’m focusing on some aspects of testing HTTP endpoints in Azure using Loader.IO. This is applicable to both websites and API’s. Performance testing versus load testing – What’s the difference? First lets be clear on our goals. … Read More »

So you started development on your Cordova application with the default name and id (io.cordova.hellocordova) and now you want to change it? First edit your config.xml. If you are in a recent version of Cordova or PhoneGap (Cordova 3.5.0 for … Read More »

When developing with Cordova you can use the serve functionality to launch a web server for viewing your application in a browser. The problem here is that you’ll be browsing to the site in one of your platform directories where … Read More »

While developing a Windows 8 (and Windows 8.1) Modern Application recently I ran into a problem where the application was crashing immediately after the splash screen. Windows manages the display of the splash screen while the application is loading, so … Read More »

I am frequently asked about data security in Azure and specifically Azure Blob Storage. For many scenarios the best option is to encrypt data before storing it in Azure, however this is non-trivial, even with the cryptography support in the … Read More »